20th Century

Where We Belong: An Orphan Train Novel

By Kim Vogel Sawyer - Published 2026

Genres:

InspirationalSaga

The Depression devastates Callum Hollbrook. He loses a steady job. His wife dies giving birth to their second daughter. He places both girls ...Read Review

Fishbone Cinderella

By Elizabeth Lim - Published 2026

Genres:

Historical FantasySaga

In this absorbing family saga, we meet two fascinating women: Yut Ying, born in Guangdong in 1933, and her daughter, Marigold, born in San ...Read Review

Lily Tripp: Diary of an Accidental Time Traveller

By Amelia Tait - Published 2026

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

Thirteen-year-old Lily Tripp has been in love with Ollie all her life. Or should that be all her lives? While York in 2025 is ...Read Review

Where the Sky Begins

By Cindy Dees - By Mary Wine - Published 2026

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The first, and hugely anticipated, race for women pilots started in California in May 1929. Twenty top women pilots of the time, including Amelia ...Read Review

Books Up the Mountain: A Packhorse Librarian Story

By Caroline Starr Rose - By Gabrielle Grimard (illus.) - Published 2026

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration hired almost a thousand women living in Appalachia to deliver books, newspapers, pamphlets, and other ...Read Review

Celebrations at the Toffee Factory

By Glenda Young - Published 2026

Genres:

Saga

Celebrations at the Toffee Factory is the final instalment in Glenda Young’s much-loved Toffee Factory trilogy, set in the North-East of England ...Read Review

Saving the Fire

By Itamar Vieira Junior - By Johnny Lorenz (trans.) - Published 2026

Genres:

LiterarySaga

Set in a small, disconnected rural village in Brazil, this family saga makes time unimportant. It is set today; it is set three ...Read Review

Won’t Be Long Now

By Elizabeth Hardinger - Published 2026

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Personality and relational difficulties compound Billie Enholm’s bewilderment and wonder as a child beginning to recognize herself and how she fits—or ...Read Review

Round Up the Unusual Suspects: A Babs Norman Golden Age of Hollywood Mystery

By Elizabeth Crowens - Published 2026

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

1942 Hollywood. Babs Norman and Guy Brandt, private detectives, are called to a Warner Brothers set of the movie Yankee Doodle Dandy. A man ...Read Review

The Greek House

By Dinah Jefferies - Published 2025

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Merchant’s House, a Venetian-style dwelling surrounded by gardens by the sea on Corfu, has been in the family of sixteen-year-old Thirza for ...Read Review